West Coast Kustoms and Barris Kustoms did great work... sweet grill

A recreation of the Munster's coach was brought to the LA Roadster show by George Barris (they say it is original.. it isn't)

I'm going on record as saying it's not the original Munster's Coach, why? Well Jack Roush wasn't making intakes and air filter tops in the 1960's, and this recreation has one.

More importantly, the photos of the original show that it had a squeeze horn on the drivers side a piullar, and no side mirrors. Also, the head lights had more decorative ornamentation on the tops ... see for yourself: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/munsters-dragula-car.html plus the spiders in the window corners are missing. So what is original about this recreation ?

Most obvious is the wrong shifter handle, the original had a ball at the end of a long curved handle, it ended between the driver and passenger about chest high, looked really long and off proportion

1966 kustom built by Barris, the Tastee Big "T" found in the parking lot at the LA Roadster show!

Above: Bubble gum card showing the original, and it was brought back to the Barris shop in the early 70's and they made a few changes. They built a new body, dropped the front end, took off 2 of the fake blowers and put on a windshield http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4460174

Bangshift did a short story on it when it came up on Ebay in March of 2010 http://www.bangshift.com/blog/eBay-Find-The-Barris-Tastee-Freez-T.html

Another photo of the Barris shop

Via: http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com/

Muntz stereo ads of 1967-68

terrific article interviewing and biographing George Barris

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-05-09-car-guy_x.htm

the Hirohata Merc by Barris... found for sale in the classifieds, it is amazing what you could find for sale in the back pages of car magazines

Think this was a once in a lifetime find?

How about Roth's Orbitron? http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/classifieds-in-old-magazines-turn-up.html Or cars owned by Phil Hill, Fangio, or record holders like Mickey Thompson's Bonneville record setter! Race cars (owned by Fangio) that won the Italian Gran Prix, or Max Bulchowsky's Old Yaller III!

Transforming the Pickle blog has a boatload of kustoms, before and after photos, here's George Barris at work in the 50's and Watson's shop

http://1950pickle.blogspot.com/2009/05/rise-and-fall-of-few-of-custom-cars.html via: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/05/30/four-links-pizzaboy-searches-for-camaro-cj-6s-galore-kustoms-in-italy-stanguellini-tour/